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Maybe, Just Maybe, The Army Has Figured Out What To Do With All Of That UCP

Used to be, the Marines got all of the Army’s hand me downs. Times are tough and the budget situation is bleak. What with UCP being used as a background image for Marine Corps Systems Command’s website, makes you wonder.

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8 Responses to “Maybe, Just Maybe, The Army Has Figured Out What To Do With All Of That UCP”

  1. straps says:
    May 23, 2016 at 16:26

    I guarantee two things:

    1. That was a civilian contractor deploying a product approved by a civilian employee.

    2. That will be unfooked post haste.

  2. Bert says:
    May 23, 2016 at 18:47

    Potential uses for UCP:

    1) Garrison uniform, like the old tan utilities

    2) Opfor clothing

    3) Free uniforms for “friendly” armies we are training

    4) Bonfire fuel

    • SSD says:
      May 23, 2016 at 22:20

      I like the friendly army idea.

      • Riceball says:
        May 23, 2016 at 22:42

        There are at least a few nations that, for whatever reason, actually decided to adopt UCP, whether or not their uniforms are in the ACU pattern or not is another matter entirely, but I’m sure that some of those foreign UCP adopters also also adopted that ACUs so we could just simply sell off our excess stock to them. I’m sure that they’d love to have genuine US Army surplus ACUs in UCP.

      • Matt says:
        May 24, 2016 at 07:27

        So when they become our enemies in a few years we can spot them since UCP can’t hide you against anything but UCP… It will probably just end up surplus they could dye it Green and give it to our friends in Asia or Africa though

  3. joe says:
    May 24, 2016 at 13:32

    The Corps could easily adopt surplus UCP ACU’s as Urban MARPAT, just use some EGA rubber stamps to add a bit of branding and black to the pattern, done.

    That said, in Army testing Desert MARPAT was more effective than UCP in urban environments so it really wouldn’t gain them anything.